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 STEINPoetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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