The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing has happened today except kindness.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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