Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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