One must dare to be happy.
GERTRUDE STEINI like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to 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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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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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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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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