There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
GERTRUDE STEINAs there was never any question there was never any answer.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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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 really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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