The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
GERTRUDE STEINAmerica is my country and Paris is my hometown.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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We are always the same age inside.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Romance is everything.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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