It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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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One must dare to be happy.
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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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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 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.
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