This joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEINWar is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Everybody 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.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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