Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
GERTRUDE STEINThe nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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One must dare to be happy.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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