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Art isn't everything. It's just about 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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.
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Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
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Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Very likely education does not make very much difference.
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If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.
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A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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