Any time is the time to make a poem.
GERTRUDE STEINWhy should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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