The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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 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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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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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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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Romance is everything.
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