Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
GERTRUDE STEINLet me listen to me and not to them.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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