Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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