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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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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
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If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.
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A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
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No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight. In no sense innocence in no sense and what in delight and not, in no sense innocence in no sense no sense what, in no sense and delight, and in no sense and delight and not in no sense and delight and not, no sense in no sense innocence and delight.
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One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
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A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
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If you can do it then why do it?
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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One must dare to be happy.
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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
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If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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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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