Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
GERTRUDE STEINPoetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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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 the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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