For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
GERTRUDE STEINI wish that I was where I am.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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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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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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 am I because my little dog knows me.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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