It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
GERTRUDE STEINI wish that I was where I am.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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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 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.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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