America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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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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