Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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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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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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