A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
GERTRUDE STEINthere are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is 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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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