It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
GERTRUDE STEINOne must dare to be happy.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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We are always the same age inside.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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