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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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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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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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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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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One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
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To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.
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there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.
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Two things are always the same the dance and war.
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Every man is the maker of his own fortune
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Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.
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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
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I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.
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