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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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Two things are always the same the dance and war.
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It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
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Very likely education does not make very much difference.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.
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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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You cannot go into the womb to form the child it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.
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I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
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Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
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Remarks aren't literature.
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I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.
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I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...
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Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.
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