Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the place of places and and it is here.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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