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.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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