This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
GERTRUDE STEINHow do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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