This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
GERTRUDE STEINI have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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The 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.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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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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A diary means yes indeed.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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