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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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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
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I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
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In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
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The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.
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The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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Every man is the maker of his own fortune
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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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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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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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When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.
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If you can do it then why do it?
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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You are all a lost generation.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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