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.
GERTRUDE STEINLove: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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