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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
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In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself
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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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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
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You are all a lost generation.
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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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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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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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Forget grammar and think about potatoes
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
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Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.
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Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
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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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