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 STEINNothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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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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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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