I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
GERTRUDE STEINAn audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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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 better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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