An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
GERTRUDE STEINThere are a lot of other things besides nouns.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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 nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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