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Every man is the maker of his own fortune
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
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I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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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 are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
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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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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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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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