It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Romance is everything.
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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