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Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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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The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
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I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.
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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.
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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
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That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.
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There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.
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I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.
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I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.
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