Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
GERTRUDE STEINI like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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