I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
GERTRUDE STEINEach generation has something different at which they are all looking.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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there 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.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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This joy you feel is life.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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 look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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