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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Allegheny
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Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
Gertrude Stein
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You are all a lost generation.
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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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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
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We are always the same age inside.
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A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.
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