A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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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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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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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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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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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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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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