You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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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.
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One must dare to be happy.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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