Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
GERTRUDE STEINI 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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