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When you get there, there isn't any there there.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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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.
Gertrude Stein
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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I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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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.
Gertrude Stein
Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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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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The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
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You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.
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Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.
Gertrude Stein
There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
Gertrude Stein
Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.
Gertrude Stein
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
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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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