Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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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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One must dare to be happy.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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