A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Romance is everything.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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One must dare to be happy.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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