The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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We are always the same age inside.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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