What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
GERTRUDE STEINYou have to know what you want to get it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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One must dare to be happy.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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There 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.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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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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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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This joy you feel is life.
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