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Gertrude Stein - From the Aging category:
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Aging category:
We are always the same age inside. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Art category:
Art isn't everything. It's just about everything. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Audience category:
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Belief category:
I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Boredom category:
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Challenge category:
If you can do it then why do it? (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Collectors category:
You can either buy clothes or buy pictures. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Contemporary Art category:
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Conviction category:
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Creativity category:
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Danger category:
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Desire category:
You have to know what you want to get. But when you know that, let it take you. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back because that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Earth category:
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Education category:
Very likely education does not make very much difference. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Eroticism category:
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Failure category:
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Friendship category:
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Genius category:
To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Genius category:
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Gratitude category:
Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Hope category:
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. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Humanity category:
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Imitation category:
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Importance category:
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Influence category:
Picasso once remarked, 'I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.' (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Information category:
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Interest category:
Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Journey category:
If you are looking down while you are walking, it is better to walk uphill because the ground is nearer. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Miracles category:
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Money category:
The money is always there, but the pockets change. It is not in the same pocket after a change, and that is all there is to say about money. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Museums category:
When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Opposites category:
Action and reaction are equal and opposite. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Patience category:
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Poetry category:
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Portraiture category:
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Prosperity category:
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Questions category:
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Reality category:
There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Repetition category:
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Risk category:
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Sculpture category:
Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Seeing category:
I like a view, but I like to sit with my back turned to it. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Senses category:
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Solitude category:
It is very easy to love alone. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Standards category:
-when asked how she knew good art...
It makes me itch. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Understanding category:
The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing. (Gertrude Stein)
Gertrude Stein - From the Writing category:
To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write. (Gertrude Stein)
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