How I wish I were able to say what I think.
GERTRUDE STEINThe nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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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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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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