Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
GERTRUDE STEINThe 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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