It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
GERTRUDE STEINWar is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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A diary means yes indeed.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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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