There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
GERTRUDE STEINThe way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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 a lot of other things besides nouns.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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