It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
GERTRUDE STEINForensics is eloquence and reduction.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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One must dare to be happy.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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We are always the same age inside.
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