#iv

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#any #argument #believing #breathe #cannot

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#inconceivable #literature #sex #unconcerned

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#back #civilization #dark #dark ages #does

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#everyone #lived #observe #one time #say

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#between #brings #choose #courses #death

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#climate #good #hell #i #like

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#always #any #been #coming #conviction

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#big #bottles #breakfast #coffee #cream

I try to live in the moment, every moment. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#i #live #moment #try

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#different #explore #freedom #gives #philosophies