Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
GERTRUDE STEINPoetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Romance is everything.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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