Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
GERTRUDE STEINWhoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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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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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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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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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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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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