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 STEINGenerally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Romance is everything.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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