Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
GERTRUDE STEINI have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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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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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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