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 STEINA creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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One must dare to be happy.
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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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