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.
GERTRUDE STEINLadies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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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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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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