Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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