We are always the same age inside.
GERTRUDE STEINA writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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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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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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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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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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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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