From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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 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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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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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