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.
GERTRUDE STEINI like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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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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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 sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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One must dare to be happy.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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