The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the place of places and and it is here.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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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 better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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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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