The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
GERTRUDE STEINThe difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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