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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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You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.
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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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
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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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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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Forget grammar and think about potatoes
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The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.
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Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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