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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
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It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
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It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
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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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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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
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You attract what you need like a lover
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It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.
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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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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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There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.
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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
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If you can do it then why do it?
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