Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
GERTRUDE STEINHonesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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This joy you feel is life.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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