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If you can do it then why do it?

Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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You cannot go into the womb to form the child it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
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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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One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
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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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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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You attract what you need like a lover
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
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there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.
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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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A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Very likely education does not make very much difference.
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