The 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 STEINThere is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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We are always the same age inside.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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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 I because my little dog knows me.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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