Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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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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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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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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