Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINI just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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We are always the same age inside.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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