I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
GERTRUDE STEINIt 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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 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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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