there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
GERTRUDE STEINA great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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 wish that I was where I am.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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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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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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