The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
GERTRUDE STEINThe creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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