I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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