Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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