It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
GERTRUDE STEINOne does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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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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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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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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