Art is the pulse of a nation.
GERTRUDE STEINYou 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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