This joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEINthere 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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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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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 soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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