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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
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Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
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One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.
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If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.
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Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.
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Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
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I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.
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Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
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When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
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Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.
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Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.
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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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