The artist works by locating the world in himself.
GERTRUDE STEINThis joy you feel is life.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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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 really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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 must dare to be happy.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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