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 STEINSuppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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