Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
GERTRUDE STEINA great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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 am I because my little dog knows me.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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