Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
GERTRUDE STEINAction and reaction are equal and opposite.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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We are always the same age inside.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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