The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
GERTRUDE STEINI like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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