There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
GERTRUDE STEINYou have to know what you want to get it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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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There 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.
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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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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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