I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
GERTRUDE STEINLadies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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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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