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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.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.
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More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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You cannot go into the womb to form the child it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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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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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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there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.
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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
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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.
Gertrude Stein
Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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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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