America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
GERTRUDE STEINWhen they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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