You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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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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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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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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