Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
GERTRUDE STEINFrench people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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One must dare to be happy.
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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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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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