When 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.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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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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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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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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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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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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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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One must dare to be happy.
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