Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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One must dare to be happy.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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We are always the same age inside.
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