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When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
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I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Forget grammar and think about potatoes
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Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.
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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
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The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.
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Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.
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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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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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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
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I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
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I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
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There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
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Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.
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