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?’
GERTRUDE STEINThe creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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 nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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