Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEINArt isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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 very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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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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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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