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A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Pennsylvania
Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
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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 really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
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You attract what you need like a lover
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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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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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If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
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Every man is the maker of his own fortune
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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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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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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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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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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
Gertrude Stein
... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.
Gertrude Stein
When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.
Gertrude Stein
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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