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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there is no sense in it because if it were not for my work they would not be interested in me so why should they not be more interested in my work than in me. That is one of the things one has to worry about in America.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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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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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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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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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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History takes time. History makes memory.
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Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
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And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
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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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The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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