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.
GERTRUDE STEINNobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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