It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
GERTRUDE STEINHonesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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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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