In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
GERTRUDE STEINThe reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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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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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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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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One must dare to be happy.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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