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.
GERTRUDE STEINIn the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Too few is as many as too many.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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