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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
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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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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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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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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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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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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.
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Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.
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There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.
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I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...
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More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
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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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I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.
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War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.
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