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.
GERTRUDE STEINLove: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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