It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
GERTRUDE STEINThere are a lot of other things besides nouns.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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