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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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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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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.
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A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.
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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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Two things are always the same the dance and war.
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One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.
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And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
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The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
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Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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