It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
GERTRUDE STEINThere 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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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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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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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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