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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
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The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.
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Every man is the maker of his own fortune
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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When you get there, there isn't any there there.
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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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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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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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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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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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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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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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I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.
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