Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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 not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Romance is everything.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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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 nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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This joy you feel is life.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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