In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
Gertrude Stein in The Geographical History of America (1936)
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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
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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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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Negligible Old Star
NEGLIGIBLE old star.
Pour even.
It was a sad per cent.
Does on sun day.
Watch or water.
So soon a moon or a old heavy press.
poem by Gertrude Stein
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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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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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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.
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Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.
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