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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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 no there there.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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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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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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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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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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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there is no sense in it because if it were not for my work they would not be interested in me so why should they not be more interested in my work than in me. That is one of the things one has to worry about in America.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
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I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.
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When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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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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