Any time is the time to make a poem.
GERTRUDE STEINThe way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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