In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
GERTRUDE STEINMoney 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.
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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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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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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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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We are always the same age inside.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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