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.
GERTRUDE STEINAnyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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