It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
GERTRUDE STEINAmerica is my country and Paris is my hometown.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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