It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
GERTRUDE STEINThe artist works by locating the world in himself.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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