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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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.
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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Every man is the maker of his own fortune
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
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The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
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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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I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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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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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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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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