Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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We are always the same age inside.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Romance is everything.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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