Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
GERTRUDE STEINAn audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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 creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Romance is everything.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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