It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
GERTRUDE STEINThere is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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This joy you feel is life.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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 very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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