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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
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An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.
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A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
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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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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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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
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One must dare to be happy.
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.
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