Any time is the time to make a poem.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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