Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
GERTRUDE STEINYou attract what you need like a lover.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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 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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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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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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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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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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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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