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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
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A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
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Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
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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 could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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One must dare to be happy.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.
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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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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.
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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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There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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