It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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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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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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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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