Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
GERTRUDE STEINMostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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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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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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One must dare to be happy.
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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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