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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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Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.
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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.
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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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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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A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.
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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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There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
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Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.
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Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous
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Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
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There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.
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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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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
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