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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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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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Two things are always the same the dance and war.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Every man is the maker of his own fortune
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.
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An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.
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There is no there there.
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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself
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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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I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
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each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
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Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
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To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.
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