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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
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If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there is no sense in it because if it were not for my work they would not be interested in me so why should they not be more interested in my work than in me. That is one of the things one has to worry about in America.
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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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History takes time. History makes memory.
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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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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
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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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