Quote#Wisdom
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot…
Quote byGertrude Stein · 1874–1946
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Form and Intelligibility," from The Radcliffe Manuscripts (1949); written in 1895 as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College.
English (original)
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
— Gertrude Stein
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