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.
GERTRUDE STEINYou 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.
GERTRUDE STEINThere ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
GERTRUDE STEINWriting and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
GERTRUDE STEINWhat is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
GERTRUDE STEINIf you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
GERTRUDE STEINMoney is always there but the pockets change.
GERTRUDE STEINI understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
GERTRUDE STEINAs there was never any question there was never any answer.
GERTRUDE STEINThe first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
GERTRUDE STEINCommunists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
GERTRUDE STEINI really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
GERTRUDE STEINThere are a lot of other things besides nouns.
GERTRUDE STEINA writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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