There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
GERTRUDE STEINLet me listen to me and not to them.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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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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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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