One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
GERTRUDE STEINAny time is the time to make a poem.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Romance is everything.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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