A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
GERTRUDE STEINAny time is the time to make a poem.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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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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A diary means yes indeed.
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