A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
GERTRUDE STEINThere 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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