I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
GERTRUDE STEINAn audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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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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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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