America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
GERTRUDE STEINI 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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