It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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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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We are always the same age inside.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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