The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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