I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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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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Money 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.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Romance is everything.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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