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.
GERTRUDE STEINA writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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