Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
GERTRUDE STEINPoetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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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 has happened today except kindness.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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