You attract what you need like a lover.
GERTRUDE STEINAmerica is my country and Paris is my hometown.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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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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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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