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Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
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 often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.
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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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If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.
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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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