It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEINAmerica is my country and Paris is my hometown.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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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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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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