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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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The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
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Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.
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A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
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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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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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Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.
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To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.
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It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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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 idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous
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You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
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