For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
GERTRUDE STEINYou have to learn to do everything, even to die.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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 like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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