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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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There is no there there.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.
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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 is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.
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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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You cannot go into the womb to form the child it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.
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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
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I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
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One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
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But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.
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If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
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It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.
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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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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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