A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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A diary means yes indeed.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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