It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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