Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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A diary means yes indeed.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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