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 STEINthere are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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