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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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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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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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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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