Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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