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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
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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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One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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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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Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
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I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.
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Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
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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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A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.
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I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
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One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.
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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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You are all a lost generation.
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Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.
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