War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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 am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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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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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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