A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Romance is everything.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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