One must dare to be happy.
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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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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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