Gertrude Stein Quotes About Literature
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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A diary means yes indeed.
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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.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.
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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
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No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Very likely education does not make very much difference.
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Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.
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Remarks aren't literature.
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In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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.
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In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
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Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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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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It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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