For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
GERTRUDE STEINThis joy you feel is life.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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