Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
GERTRUDE STEINI understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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One must dare to be happy.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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