If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
GERTRUDE STEINAnyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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