It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
GERTRUDE STEINAmerica is my country and Paris is my hometown.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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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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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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