Art is the pulse of a nation.
GERTRUDE STEINA 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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 is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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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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