It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
GERTRUDE STEINAnyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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