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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.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.
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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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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 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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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There is no there there.
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But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
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Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.
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Forget grammar and think about potatoes
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Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
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It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.
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The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.
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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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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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Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.
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