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.
GERTRUDE STEINRomance is everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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