I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
GERTRUDE STEINEvery day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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