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Gertrude Stein Inspirational Quotes (206)

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Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
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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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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.
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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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I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
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I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.
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Every man is the maker of his own fortune
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Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.
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If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
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Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.
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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
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The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.
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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
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There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.
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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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But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
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The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
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If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.
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You attract what you need like a lover
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.
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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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