What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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