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 STEINYou’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I wish that I was where I am.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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The 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.
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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