Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
GERTRUDE STEIN
You have to know what you want to get it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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