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.
GERTRUDE STEINPoetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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We are always the same age inside.
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