I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
GERTRUDE STEINI am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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