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I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Gertruda Stein
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each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
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Forget grammar and think about potatoes
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There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
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This joy you feel is life.
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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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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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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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It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
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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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Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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