For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Romance is everything.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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