America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
GERTRUDE STEINThere is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Romance is everything.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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