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.
GERTRUDE STEINYou’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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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