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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Gertruda Stein
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover
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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
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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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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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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous
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The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
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The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
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Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.
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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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And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
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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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