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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.

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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
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Remarks aren't literature.
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there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.
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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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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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If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
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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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When you get there, there isn't any there there.
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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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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
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I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.
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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
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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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A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.
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