If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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