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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Remarks aren't literature.
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One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight. In no sense innocence in no sense and what in delight and not, in no sense innocence in no sense no sense what, in no sense and delight, and in no sense and delight and not in no sense and delight and not, no sense in no sense innocence and delight.
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You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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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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Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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You are all a lost generation.
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I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
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If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
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I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
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I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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Very likely education does not make very much difference.
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