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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.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.
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War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.
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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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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
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Remarks aren't literature.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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