One must dare to be happy.
GERTRUDE STEINSuppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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