Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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