You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
GERTRUDE STEINI have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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