The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
GERTRUDE STEINToo few is as many as too many.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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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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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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