If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
GERTRUDE STEINI like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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One must dare to be happy.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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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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A diary means yes indeed.
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