For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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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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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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