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.
GERTRUDE STEINAmerica is my country and Paris is my hometown.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Romance is everything.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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One must dare to be happy.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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