It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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We are always the same age inside.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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