Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
GERTRUDE STEINLove: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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A diary means yes indeed.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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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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