For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
GERTRUDE STEINYou look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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