there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
GERTRUDE STEINThe difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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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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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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