A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
GERTRUDE STEINHonesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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