This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
GERTRUDE STEINHonesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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 creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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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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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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