It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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We are always the same age inside.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about 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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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