Any time is the time to make a poem.
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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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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