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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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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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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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There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...
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But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
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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.
Gertrude Stein
Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
Gertrude Stein
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
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Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Remarks aren't literature.
Gertrude Stein
If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
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The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
Gertrude Stein
there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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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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