Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
GERTRUDE STEINConsidering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
GERTRUDE STEINNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
GERTRUDE STEINEach generation has something different at which they are all looking.
GERTRUDE STEINThe artist works by locating the world in himself.
GERTRUDE STEINThis 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.
GERTRUDE STEINThe first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
GERTRUDE STEINLadies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
GERTRUDE STEINPoetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
GERTRUDE STEINThere are a lot of other things besides nouns.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
GERTRUDE STEINHonesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEINSilent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
GERTRUDE STEINBut 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?’
GERTRUDE STEINI have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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