Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
GERTRUDE STEINOne must dare to be happy.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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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.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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