A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
GERTRUDE STEINArt isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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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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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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