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 STEINIt 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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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 do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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