A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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