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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.
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Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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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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You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover
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Too few is as many as too many.
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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
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... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.
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The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
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There is no there there.
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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
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Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
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No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight. In no sense innocence in no sense and what in delight and not, in no sense innocence in no sense no sense what, in no sense and delight, and in no sense and delight and not in no sense and delight and not, no sense in no sense innocence and delight.
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When you get there, there isn't any there there.
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I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
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