War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
GERTRUDE STEINOne must dare to be happy.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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