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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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
Gertruda Staĭn
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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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The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.
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In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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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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I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.
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A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
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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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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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