We are always the same age inside.
GERTRUDE STEINA 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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