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 STEINAmerica is my country and Paris is my hometown.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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 have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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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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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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