Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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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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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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