Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
GERTRUDE STEINFor a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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