Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
GERTRUDE STEINWhy should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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We are always the same age inside.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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But 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?’
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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One must dare to be happy.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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