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.
GERTRUDE STEINI have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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