I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Romance is everything.
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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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