As there was never any question there was never any answer.
GERTRUDE STEINYou have to learn to do everything, even to die.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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Romance is everything.
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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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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