French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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But 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?’
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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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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One must dare to be happy.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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