How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Romance is everything.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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This joy you feel is life.
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