Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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