When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
GERTRUDE STEINAs there was never any question there was never any answer.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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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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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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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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One must dare to be happy.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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