I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
GERTRUDE STEINLove: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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