Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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One must dare to be happy.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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