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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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One must dare to be happy.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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