We are always the same age inside.
GERTRUDE STEINAny time is the time to make a poem.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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