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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
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
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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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History takes time. History makes memory.
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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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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
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A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.
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In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
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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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there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.
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The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.
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I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.
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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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... 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.
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It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
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Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
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The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.
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