A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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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Romance is everything.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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 lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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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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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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