Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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 am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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