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there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.

Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
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I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.
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One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.
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If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
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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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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
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I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.
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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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The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
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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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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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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.
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Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
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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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I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.
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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
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