America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
GERTRUDE STEINLet me listen to me and not to them.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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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.
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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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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