I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
GERTRUDE STEINArt isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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