A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
GERTRUDE STEINI 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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