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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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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
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Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.
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A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.
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When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
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I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
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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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Very likely education does not make very much difference.
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This joy you feel is life.
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To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.
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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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When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
Gertrude Stein
. . . 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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Gertrude Stein
The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.
Gertrude Stein
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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