It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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