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.
GERTRUDE STEINEach generation has something different at which they are all looking.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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