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.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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