Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
GERTRUDE STEINArt is the pulse of a nation.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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