Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEINGenerally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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Romance is everything.
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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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