I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
GERTRUDE STEINOne does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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This joy you feel is life.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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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.
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