You have to know what you want to get it.
GERTRUDE STEINNobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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