I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
GERTRUDE STEINOne does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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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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