The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
GERTRUDE STEINOne does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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