The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
GERTRUDE STEINSuppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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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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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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 has happened today except kindness.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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