Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
GERTRUDE STEINI do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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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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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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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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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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