Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
GERTRUDE STEINAction and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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This joy you feel is life.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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 difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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