A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
GERTRUDE STEINThere are a lot of other things besides nouns.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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When 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.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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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 way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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I 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.
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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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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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