A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
GERTRUDE STEINMoney is always there but the pockets change.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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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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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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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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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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