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.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Romance is everything.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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