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.
GERTRUDE STEINAnyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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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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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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