A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
GERTRUDE STEINBut the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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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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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Romance is everything.
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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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