It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
GERTRUDE STEINI am I because my little dog knows me.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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