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.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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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 inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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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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