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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 like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
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A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.
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Forget grammar and think about potatoes
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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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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