Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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 like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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