The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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