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.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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