Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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 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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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