How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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