America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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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 not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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