Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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