A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
GERTRUDE STEINA diary means yes indeed.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Romance is everything.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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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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