Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
GERTRUDE STEINAction and reaction are equal and opposite.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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We are always the same age inside.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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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 sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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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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