Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
GERTRUDE STEINRomance is everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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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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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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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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This joy you feel is life.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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