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.
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 little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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