There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
GERTRUDE STEINHonesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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This 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.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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