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.
GERTRUDE STEINThere ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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