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 STEINYou look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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