Art is the pulse of a nation.
GERTRUDE STEINConsidering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Romance is everything.
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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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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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