Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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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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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about 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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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