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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Two things are always the same the dance and war.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
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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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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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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.
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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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Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous
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there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
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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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