You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
GERTRUDE STEINAn audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I 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.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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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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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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