Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
GERTRUDE STEINWe are always the same age inside.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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