Romance is everything.
GERTRUDE STEINYou have to learn to do everything, even to die.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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.
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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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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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We are always the same age inside.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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