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 STEINSuppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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This joy you feel is life.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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