Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
GERTRUDE STEINEach generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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