It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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