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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
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 always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.
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It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
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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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You cannot go into the womb to form the child it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.
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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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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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I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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Very likely education does not make very much difference.
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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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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
Gertrude Stein
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.
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