Let me listen to me and not to them.
GERTRUDE STEINAmerica is my country and Paris is my hometown.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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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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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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