A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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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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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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We are always the same age inside.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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