You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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 whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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One must dare to be happy.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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