You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
GERTRUDE STEINNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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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.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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