Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINSilent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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