Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
GERTRUDE STEINOne must dare to be happy.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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We are always the same age inside.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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