It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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One must dare to be happy.
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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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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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