How I wish I were able to say what I think.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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