This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
GERTRUDE STEINIn the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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