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.
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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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