Too few is as many as too many.
GERTRUDE STEINHow I wish I were able to say what I think.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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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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