I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
GERTRUDE STEINAn audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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