How I wish I were able to say what I think.
GERTRUDE STEINA little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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