A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
GERTRUDE STEINThe 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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