Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
GERTRUDE STEINThe nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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