I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it. ✨ Gertrude …

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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it. ✨ Gertrude Stein (2016). GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…, p.2090, e-artnow
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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. ✨ Gertrude Stein (1954). The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings o … ▶
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship. ✨ Gertrude Stein (2012). Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein, p.202, Vin … ▶
If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic. ✨ Gertrude Stein (2012). Selected Writin … ▶
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich. ✨ Everybody's Autobiography ch. 3 (1937)
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 Stein, Robert Bartlett Haas (1971). A … ▶

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