War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
GERTRUDE STEINI am I because my little dog knows me.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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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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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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