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Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
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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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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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A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.
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I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
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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 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 like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
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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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Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
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It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.
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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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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.
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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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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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Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
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