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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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There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
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More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
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In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
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When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
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Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.
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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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When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
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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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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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One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.
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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
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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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I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Two things are always the same the dance and war.
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I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
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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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