Gertrude Stein Quotes

A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Appearance Complete Creation Generation Himself
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Action Equality Reaction
Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Gratitude Silence Thankful
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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Artist Happiness Himself Sorrow Tragedy
You have to know what you want to get it.
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Aware Goal Yourself
I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Couple Marriage Myself Oneself
You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Appearance Choice Dance Yourself
A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Emotional Feeling Literature Sentence
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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Attack Kind Man Resistance Way Winning Woman
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Common Information Internet Lose Sense Yourself