Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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 extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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