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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.
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Forget grammar and think about potatoes
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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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More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
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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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It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there is no sense in it because if it were not for my work they would not be interested in me so why should they not be more interested in my work than in me. That is one of the things one has to worry about in America.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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When you get there, there isn't any there there.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.
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I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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