Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
GERTRUDE STEINArgument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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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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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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