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 STEINLet me listen to me and not to them.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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