A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
GERTRUDE STEINLet me listen to me and not to them.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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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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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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