Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
GERTRUDE STEIN
GERTRUDE STEIN
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Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein 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.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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