A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
GERTRUDE STEINI understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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A diary means yes indeed.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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 always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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