You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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