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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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You cannot go into the womb to form the child it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.
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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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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.
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Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
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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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If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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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