It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEINI really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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