If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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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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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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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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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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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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One must dare to be happy.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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