I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINAnything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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