I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINThere is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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