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.
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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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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