America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
GERTRUDE STEINIn the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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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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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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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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