This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
GERTRUDE STEINArt is the pulse of a nation.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Romance is everything.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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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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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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