I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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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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