You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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This joy you feel is life.
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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.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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