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.
GERTRUDE STEINI could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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We are always the same age inside.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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