How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
GERTRUDE STEINthere 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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