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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.
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Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.
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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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The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.
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If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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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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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
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There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
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Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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