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.
GERTRUDE STEINYou attract what you need like a lover.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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