Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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I wish that I was where I am.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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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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