Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
GERTRUDE STEINHow likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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