Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
GERTRUDE STEINIt is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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 am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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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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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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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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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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