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 isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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One must dare to be happy.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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