What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
GERTRUDE STEINIn America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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