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The artist works by locating the world in himself
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.
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The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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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.
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there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.
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. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
Gertrude Stein
I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
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