A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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