I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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