America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
GERTRUDE STEIN
The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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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.
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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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A diary means yes indeed.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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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 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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