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There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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 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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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.
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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
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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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War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous
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There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
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I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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