I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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 do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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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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