This is the place of places and and it is here.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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