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.
GERTRUDE STEINI understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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