It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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there 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.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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