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I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
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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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I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Two things are always the same the dance and war.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
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