This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
GERTRUDE STEINArt isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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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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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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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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