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.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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This joy you feel is life.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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