It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
(Wars I Have Seen, 1945)

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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Gertrude Stein (Everybody's Autobiography, 1937)

We are always the same age inside.

Gertrude Stein (Quoted in The American Treasury, 1955)

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Gertrude Stein (Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925)

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