I am I because my little dog knows me.
GERTRUDE STEINCommunists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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 writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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