I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
GERTRUDE STEINEach generation has something different at which they are all looking.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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