The 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 STEINHow likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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