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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.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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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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There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.
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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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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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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
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To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.
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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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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
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It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
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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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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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Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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