A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
GERTRUDE STEINYou’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I wish that I was where I am.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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