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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.
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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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