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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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There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.
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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.
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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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I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...
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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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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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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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I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.
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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
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It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
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... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.
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That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.
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