Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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