Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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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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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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