If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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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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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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