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.
GERTRUDE STEINAny time is the time to make a poem.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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