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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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
Gertrude Stein
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Remarks aren't literature.
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Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
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Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.
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One must dare to be happy.
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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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Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
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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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I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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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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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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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
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But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
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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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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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. . . 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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When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
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