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 STEINIt is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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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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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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