Too few is as many as too many.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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Romance is everything.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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