You have to know what you want to get it.
GERTRUDE STEINNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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