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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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Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
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. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there is no sense in it because if it were not for my work they would not be interested in me so why should they not be more interested in my work than in me. That is one of the things one has to worry about in America.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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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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Forget grammar and think about potatoes
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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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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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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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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.
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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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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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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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