I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
GERTRUDE STEINThere ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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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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