How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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 is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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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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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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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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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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