Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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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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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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