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 STEINHow likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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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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