You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
GERTRUDE STEINBut the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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 always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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