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I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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When you get there, there isn't any there there.
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It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.
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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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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.
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It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Remarks aren't literature.
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Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.
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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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