Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
GERTRUDE STEINThe 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Romance is everything.
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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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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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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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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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