One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
GERTRUDE STEINOne does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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