Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
GERTRUDE STEINA writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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