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 STEINRomance is everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Romance is everything.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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 like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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