I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
GERTRUDE STEINI could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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One must dare to be happy.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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