It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
GERTRUDE STEINThe 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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One must dare to be happy.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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