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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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One must dare to be happy.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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