What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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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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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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