The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
GERTRUDE STEINAn audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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