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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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Allegheny
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Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
Gertrude Stein
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Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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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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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself
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There is no there there.
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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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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.
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When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.
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There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
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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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Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
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. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.
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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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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
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It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.
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