What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
GERTRUDE STEINFor a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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 attract what you need like a lover.
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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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One must dare to be happy.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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