I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
GERTRUDE STEINArt is the pulse of a nation.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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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 are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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