What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
GERTRUDE STEINForensics is eloquence and reduction.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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We are always the same age inside.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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