A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
GERTRUDE STEINNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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 do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Money 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.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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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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Romance is everything.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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