Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
GERTRUDE STEINIf the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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This joy you feel is life.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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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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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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