There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
GERTRUDE STEINNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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