I wish that I was where I am.
GERTRUDE STEINI wish that I was where I am.
GERTRUDE STEINThe first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
GERTRUDE STEINI do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
GERTRUDE STEINWhen they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
GERTRUDE STEINEach generation has something different at which they are all looking.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing has happened today except kindness.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
GERTRUDE STEINI could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
GERTRUDE STEINLove: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
GERTRUDE STEINAs there was never any question there was never any answer.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
GERTRUDE STEINThe artist works by locating the world in himself.
GERTRUDE STEINPoetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
GERTRUDE STEINAny time is the time to make a poem.
GERTRUDE STEINGenerally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
GERTRUDE STEINThere is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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