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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
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Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.
Gertrude Stein
This joy you feel is life.
Gertrude Stein
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
Gertrude Stein
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Gertrude Stein
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.
Gertrude Stein
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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.
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I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
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It is very easy to love alone.
Gertrude Stein
Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
Gertrude Stein
I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
Gertrude Stein
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.
Gertrude Stein
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.
Gertrude Stein
Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.
Gertrude Stein
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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