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.
GERTRUDE STEINLove: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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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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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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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