As there was never any question there was never any answer.
GERTRUDE STEINAn audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Romance is everything.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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