I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
GERTRUDE STEINWriter or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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One must dare to be happy.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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