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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 head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
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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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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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To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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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If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
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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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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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