I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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