Let me listen to me and not to them.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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We are always the same age inside.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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