The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
GERTRUDE STEINLet me listen to me and not to them.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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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One must dare to be happy.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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