A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
GERTRUDE STEINThere is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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But 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?’
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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This joy you feel is life.
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