The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
GERTRUDE STEINToo few is as many as too many.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Romance is everything.
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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