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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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When you get there, there isn't any there there.
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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 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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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
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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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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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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
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Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.
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A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
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A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.
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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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I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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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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The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
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I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.
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