It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
GERTRUDE STEINCommunists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Romance is everything.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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