It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
GERTRUDE STEINA 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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