Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
GERTRUDE STEINThere are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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Romance is everything.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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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 could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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