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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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.
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Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous
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Two things are always the same the dance and war.
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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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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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