It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
GERTRUDE STEINRomance is everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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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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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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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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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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