A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
GERTRUDE STEINLadies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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