there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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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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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One must dare to be happy.
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