You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
GERTRUDE STEINWriter or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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