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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Salonnière
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Allegheny
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Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
Gertrude Stein
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.
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I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
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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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Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.
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More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight. In no sense innocence in no sense and what in delight and not, in no sense innocence in no sense no sense what, in no sense and delight, and in no sense and delight and not in no sense and delight and not, no sense in no sense innocence and delight.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
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She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
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The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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There is no there there.
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