As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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