A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
GERTRUDE STEINAnything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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