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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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.
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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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Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
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A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.
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Two things are always the same the dance and war.
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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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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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It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.
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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
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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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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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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
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I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
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there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.
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Remarks aren't literature.
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To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.
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