This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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 first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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This joy you feel is life.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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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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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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