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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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Gertruda Stein
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... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
Gertrude Stein
Every man is the maker of his own fortune
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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.
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Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.
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The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.
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It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there is no sense in it because if it were not for my work they would not be interested in me so why should they not be more interested in my work than in me. That is one of the things one has to worry about in America.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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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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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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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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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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Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.
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I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
Gertrude Stein
To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.
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Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.
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If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
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