There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
GERTRUDE STEINToo few is as many as too many.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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 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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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There 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.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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