Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
GERTRUDE STEINIf you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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