You have to know what you want to get it.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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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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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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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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