Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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One must dare to be happy.
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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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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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