A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
GERTRUDE STEINAnyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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