This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
GERTRUDE STEINSuppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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 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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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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