This joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEINWriter or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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