Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
GERTRUDE STEINArgument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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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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A diary means yes indeed.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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If 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.
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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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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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