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Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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There is no there there.
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I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.
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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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Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.
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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
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there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.
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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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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
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One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.
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Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.
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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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That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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