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Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
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A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.
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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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Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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