You attract what you need like a lover.
GERTRUDE STEINFrench people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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