You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
GERTRUDE STEINWriting and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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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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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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