There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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 are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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I 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.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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This joy you feel is life.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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