A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
GERTRUDE STEINEach generation has something different at which they are all looking.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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 very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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