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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.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.
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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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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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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
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I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.
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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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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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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.
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More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
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When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
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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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