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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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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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There is no there there.
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Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.
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One must dare to be happy.
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That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.
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I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.
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... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
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A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
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If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
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Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.
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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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More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
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