One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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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