I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINI have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
GERTRUDE STEINMoney is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINThis joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEINHow do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
GERTRUDE STEINthere 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.
GERTRUDE STEINThe artist works by locating the world in himself.
GERTRUDE STEINA very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
GERTRUDE STEINLove: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
GERTRUDE STEINNobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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 STEINIt is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEINWhy should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
GERTRUDE STEINPoetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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