A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
GERTRUDE STEINPoetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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If 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.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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