It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
GERTRUDE STEINAction and reaction are equal and opposite.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Romance is everything.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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