There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
GERTRUDE STEINThere are a lot of other things besides nouns.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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