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.
GERTRUDE STEINFrom the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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You’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.
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