Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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