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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
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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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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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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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Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.
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Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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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.
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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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A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.
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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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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
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Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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