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.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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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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