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.
GERTRUDE STEINIn America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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