It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEINOne must dare to be happy.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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