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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.
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Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.
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I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.
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I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.
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A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.
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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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Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.
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The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
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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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When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.
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Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.
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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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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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