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Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
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I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.
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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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I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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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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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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Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
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Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
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I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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