Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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 lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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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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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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