Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
GERTRUDE STEINThe difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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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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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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One must dare to be happy.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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