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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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Remarks aren't literature.
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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
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There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
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The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.
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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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If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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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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