How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
GERTRUDE STEINArgument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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