Gertrude Stein quotes - page 6

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle. (Gertrude Stein)
Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure? View quote
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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You have to know what you want to get it. View quote
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. View quote
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This is the place of places and and it is here. View quote
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. (Gertrude Stein)
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. View quote
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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. View quote
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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls. View quote
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them. View quote
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There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more. View quote
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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family. View quote
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To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write. View quote
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Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died. (Gertrude Stein)
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher. View quote
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She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting. View quote
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Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. View quote
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it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do. View quote
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