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 STEINIn America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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