Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
GERTRUDE STEIN
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Romance is everything.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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 am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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