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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.
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... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
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No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight. In no sense innocence in no sense and what in delight and not, in no sense innocence in no sense no sense what, in no sense and delight, and in no sense and delight and not in no sense and delight and not, no sense in no sense innocence and delight.
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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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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.
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Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
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The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.
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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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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Remarks aren't literature.
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Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
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One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
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I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
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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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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