If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
GERTRUDE STEINHonesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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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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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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