QUOTES by Gertrude Stein
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"She answered him, there is nothing within you that fights itself and hitherto you have had the instinct to produce antagonism in others which stimulated you to attack."
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"That is what you are. That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation."
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"Sarah Harrell "There is no use there is no use at all in smell, in taste, in teeth, in toast, in anything, there is no use at all and the respect is mutual."
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"The composition of each epoch depends upon the way the frequented roads are frequented."
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"If red is in everything it is not necessary. Is that not an argument for any use of it and even so is there any place that is better, is there any place that has so much stretched out."
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"Cloudiness what is cloudiness, is it a lining, is it a roll, is it melting."
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"There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer."
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"There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. (Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures)"
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"Some one who was living was almost always listening. Some one who was loving was almost always listening."
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"A piece of crystal. A change, in a change that is remarkable there is no reason to say that there was a time."
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"A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not." (on Ezra Pound)"
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"What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it. - A substance in a cushion"
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"The more you see how the country is the more you do not wonder why they shut the door. The women do in a way and yet if they did not it would be best."
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"Twenty-five years run around so quickly but thirty one years is a long time."
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"I have lived half of my life in Paris, not the half the made me but the half in which I made what I made."
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"A cool red rose and a pink cut pink, a collapse and a sold hole, a little less hot. - Red roses."
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"There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War."
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"...they do quote me, that means that my words and my sentences get under their skins although they do no know it."
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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."
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"It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,"
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"After a while I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference, she will, he said."
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"Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet"
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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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"There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all."
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"Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable."
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"Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates."
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"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story."
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