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.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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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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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Romance is everything.
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