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 STEINThis is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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 inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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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