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 STEINThe only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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