For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
GERTRUDE STEINAs there was never any question there was never any answer.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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I wish that I was where I am.
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