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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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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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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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Remarks aren't literature.
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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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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
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It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Every man is the maker of his own fortune
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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