Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
GERTRUDE STEINHonesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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