This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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 am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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