Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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Romance is everything.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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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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We are always the same age inside.
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One must dare to be happy.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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