It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
GERTRUDE STEINFrom the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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We are always the same age inside.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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 have to know what you want to get it.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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