Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
GERTRUDE STEINYou have to learn to do everything, even to die.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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