Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
-
-
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
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.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Too few is as many as too many.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
The artist works by locating the world in himself.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Nothing has happened today except kindness.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Any time is the time to make a poem.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
This is the place of places and and it is here.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
This joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEIN