What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
GERTRUDE STEINLet me listen to me and not to them.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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