Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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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