A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
GERTRUDE STEINThere are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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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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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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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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