If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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