A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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One must dare to be happy.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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