It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
GERTRUDE STEINForensics is eloquence and reduction.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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This joy you feel is life.
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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 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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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