French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
GERTRUDE STEINAnyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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One must dare to be happy.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Romance is everything.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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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