Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
GERTRUDE STEINAnyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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