Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
GERTRUDE STEIN
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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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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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Romance is everything.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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