I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
GERTRUDE STEINFor a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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 have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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