Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
GERTRUDE STEINIf 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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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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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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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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