A diary means yes indeed.
GERTRUDE STEINAmerica is my country and Paris is my hometown.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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