This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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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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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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