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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.

Gertrude Stein

Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Eat Interest Yourself
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.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Answer Myself Sense Sound Yourself
One must dare to be happy.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Dare Happiness Oneself
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Afraid Dangerous Lose Moral Willing Yourself
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Poetry Words Writing
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Genius Time Work Yourself
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Action Equality Reaction
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
GERTRUDE STEIN

Campus Career Family Men Myself Problem Stand Talk Young
I 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.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Couple Marriage Myself Oneself
You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Feeling Kind Live Old Silly Yourself
This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Believe Illusion Oneself Reality Seek Understand
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.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Change Money Yourself
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
GERTRUDE STEIN
Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Enough Honesty Myself Selfish Virtue
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Born Country Home Myself
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Day Evening Feeling Meaning Morning

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