A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
GERTRUDE STEINFrom the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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