It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
GERTRUDE STEINEach generation has something different at which they are all looking.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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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.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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