Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
GERTRUDE STEINSuppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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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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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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It 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.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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