Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
GERTRUDE STEINWhen 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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