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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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One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.
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Two things are always the same the dance and war.
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That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
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Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.
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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.
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An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.
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... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.
Gertrude Stein
there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.
Gertrude Stein
If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.
Gertrude Stein
It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.
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This joy you feel is life.
Gertrude Stein
And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Gertrude Stein
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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