I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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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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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.
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