A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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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We are always the same age inside.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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One must dare to be happy.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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