I wish that I was where I am.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing has happened today except kindness.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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