If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
GERTRUDE STEINNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Everybody 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.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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