I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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