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.
GERTRUDE STEINA great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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One must dare to be happy.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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