Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
GERTRUDE STEINNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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 like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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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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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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