Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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We are always the same age inside.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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