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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
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
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I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.
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To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.
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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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. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.
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Very likely education does not make very much difference.
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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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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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