The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
GERTRUDE STEINMostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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