It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
GERTRUDE STEINLadies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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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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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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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 look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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