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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
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there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.
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You attract what you need like a lover
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If you can do it then why do it?
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
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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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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.
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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 tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.
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