I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
GERTRUDE STEINAction and reaction are equal and opposite.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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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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