The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
GERTRUDE STEINPoetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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.
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Romance is everything.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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