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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
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Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
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There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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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I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
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If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.
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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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I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.
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