The artist works by locating the world in himself.
GERTRUDE STEINOne does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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You 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.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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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 America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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