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.
GERTRUDE STEINEach generation has something different at which they are all looking.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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