It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEINFrom the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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This joy you feel is life.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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