It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
GERTRUDE STEINAs there was never any question there was never any answer.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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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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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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