The artist works by locating the world in himself.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing has happened today except kindness.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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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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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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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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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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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