I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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This joy you feel is life.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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