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.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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We are always the same age inside.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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