It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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A diary means yes indeed.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Romance is everything.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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We are always the same age inside.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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