Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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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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