It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
GERTRUDE STEINForensics is eloquence and reduction.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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