For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
GERTRUDE STEINHow I wish I were able to say what I think.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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