The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
GERTRUDE STEINArt is the pulse of a nation.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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.
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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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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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