A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
GERTRUDE STEINAnything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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