A diary means yes indeed.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the place of places and and it is here.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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