How I wish I were able to say what I think.
GERTRUDE STEINAction and reaction are equal and opposite.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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 real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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