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Gertrude Stein Inspirational Quotes (206)

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One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.
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I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
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. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.
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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.
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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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There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.
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Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.
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To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.
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I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
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