Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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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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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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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We are always the same age inside.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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This joy you feel is life.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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