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 STEINWhy should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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A diary means yes indeed.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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