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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
Gertrude Stein
There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
Gertrude Stein
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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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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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
Gertrude Stein
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
Gertrude Stein
The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.
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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.
Gertrude Stein
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
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I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.
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