It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEINCommunists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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