A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
GERTRUDE STEINYou look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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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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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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