It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEINLadies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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The 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.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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 the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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