We are always the same age inside.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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