Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
GERTRUDE STEINA very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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