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.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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One must dare to be happy.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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