Gertrude Stein Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
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“Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?”
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“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”
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“Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.”
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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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“You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.”
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“After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.”
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“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business”
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“Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.”
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“One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.”
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“America is my country and Paris is my hometown.”
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“Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.”
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“You have to know what you want to get it.”
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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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“Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop”
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“Money is always there but the pockets change.”
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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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“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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“You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.”
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“Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.”
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“In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.”
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“If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.”
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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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“An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.”
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“It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.”
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“There is no there there.”
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